On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Brian Ford wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>
> > I tried on XP and i was not able to reproduce.
> > Can you dig a little deeper ?
>
> Sure. Two questions though.
>
> First, any pointers on where or how to start? I just thought you might
> have some specific questions that would lead us to the problem more quickly.
>
> Second, I wan't to make sure this isn't a false alarm as I am fairly new
> to building Cygwin. My sources are current as of this morning. Is this
> test proceedure valid?
>
> I simply made a build dir. Configured as "../cygwin/configure
> --prefix=/home/ford/cygtest". Ran "make; make check".
>
> How does the test framework handle cygwin1.dll conficts, if it does? ie.
> Do I need to stop all Cygwin processes before running make check? Do I
> need to install the new Cygwin before running make check? The FAQ appears
> to say no here.
>
> Last, how do you developers manage test running Cygwin versions and
> reverting. Obvioulsy, for things like the new 64 bit support, just
> swapping cygwin1.dll is not sufficient.
>
> Thanks.
Brian,
IIRC, the testsuite uses new-cygwin1.dll, not cygwin1.dll... Hence no
conflict. See winsup/testsuite/cygrun.c.
Igor
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